British support for Ethiopia scheme withdrawn amid abuse allegations [theguardian ]
Department for International Development will no longer back $4.9bn project that critics claim has funded a brutal resettlement programme
An Anuak woman at work in Abobo, a village in Ethiopia’s Gambella region. It has been...
Bye, Bye Karuturistan, Ethiopia! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
RIP: A post-mortem on Karuturistan, Ethiopia
It was too good to be true. It is too bad it was true for the people of Gambella in western Ethiopia.
Last month, the ignoble demise of Karuturi Global, Ltd. (a/k/a “Ethiopian Meadows Plc.”,...
The Zone 9 Bloggers have not been forgotten [BBC]
BBC Trending
What’s popular and why
In April 2014 BBC Trending covered the arrest of six bloggers and three journalists in Ethiopia. The bloggers are part of a group known as Zone 9, and are well known for campaigning around censorship...
DIBABA SETS WORLD INDOOR 5000M RECORD IN STOCKHOLM [IAAF]
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the third world indoor record * of her career when she clocked 14:18:86 for 5000m at the XL-galan meeting in Stockholm, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on Thursday (19).
Dibaba took more than five seconds off the...
Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples [Megan Perry /Sustainable Food Trust ]
A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure if indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations,...
Gagging the media in Ethiopia [By Graham Peebles]
Suffocating dissent
Nobody trusts politicians, but some governments are more despicable than others. The brutal gang ruling Ethiopia is especially nasty. They claim to govern in a democratic pluralistic manner, they say they observe human rights...
Exposed: “Honorable” Speaker Abadula Gemeda has fake degrees [By Abebe Gellaw]
Addis Voice can reveal that the 4th term speaker of the House of People’s Representatives has bought and used two fake degrees from a bogus university selling non-accredited diplomas online.
”Honorable” Abadula Gemeda, who is the chief...
Ethiopia’s “Odious Debt” to the Odious World Bank [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Ethiopia as “sovereign deadbeat” state due to debts incurred by the T-TPLF
In my last commentary, The World Bank and Ethiopia’s “Growth and Transformation”, I cryptically observed in passing, “… The USD$600 million is money the...